[lbo-talk] Theories of surplus value

[Miles Jackson]

Doug Henwood wrote:
> On Jul 18, 2010, at 5:40 PM, Julio Huato wrote:
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> 
>>Similarly, Carrol doesn't think that overcoming in practice the
>>reality of value, i.e. abolishing commodity production, requires our
>>understanding all this stuff.  We'll either abolish commodity
>>production by chance or we won't.  In other words, revolutionary
>>practice does not need revolutionary theory.
> 
> 
> There's a certain kind of intellectual that likes to say things like that, isn't there?
> 
> Doug

How about this: revolutionary practice helps create revolutionary 
theory.  Julio, the fundamental conceptual mistake here--and this is a 
point that Marx made incessantly, so I certainly can't claim any 
original insight here--is the notion that thought precedes pracice.

Miles